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Your Brain Isn't a Computer. It's a Quantum Field

The
irrationality of how we think has long plagued psychology. When someone asks us
how we are, we usually respond with "fine" or "good." But
if someone followed up about a specific event — "How did you feel about
the big meeting with your boss today?" — suddenly, we refine our
"good" or "fine" responses on a spectrum from awful to
excellent.

In
less than a few sentences, we can contradict ourselves: We’re "good"
but feel awful about how the meeting went. How then could we be
"good" overall? Bias, experience, knowledge, and context all
consciously and unconsciously form a confluence that drives every decision we
make and emotion we express. Human behavior is not easy to anticipate, and
probability theory often fails in its predictions of it.

Enter
quantum cognition: A team of researchers has determined that while our choices
and beliefs don’t often make sense or fit a pattern on a macro level, at a
"quantum" level, they can be predicted with surprising accuracy. In
quantum physics, examining a particle’s state changes the state of the particle
— so too, the "observation effect" influences how we think about the
idea we are considering.

The
quantum-cognition theory opens the fields of psychology and neuroscience to
understanding the mind not as a linear computer, but rather an elegant
universe. In the example of the meeting, if someone asks, "Did it go
well?" we immediately think of ways it did. However, if he or she asks,
"Were you nervous about the meeting?" we might remember that it was
pretty scary to give a presentation in front of a group.

The
other borrowed concept in quantum cognition is that we cannot hold incompatible
ideas in our minds at one time. In other words, decision-making and
opinion-forming are a lot like Schrödinger’s cat. The quantum-cognition theory
opens the fields of psychology and neuroscience to understanding the mind not
as a linear computer, but rather an elegant universe.

But
the notion that human thought and existence is richly paradoxical has been
around for centuries. Moreover, the more scientists and scholars explore the
irrational rationality of our minds, the closer science circles back to the
confounding logic at the heart of every religion. Buddhism, for instance, is
premised on riddles such as, “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without
it.” And, in Christianity, the paradox that Christ was simultaneously both a
flesh-and-blood man and the Son of God is the central metaphor of the faith.

[D]ecision-making
and opinion-forming are a lot like Schrödinger’s cat.

For
centuries, religious texts have explored the idea that reality breaks down once
we get past our surface perceptions of it; and yet, it is through these
ambiguities that we understand more about ourselves and our world.

In
the Old Testament, the embattled Job pleads with God for an explanation as to
why he has endured so much suffering. God then quizzically replies, “Where were
you when I laid the foundations of the earth?” (Job 38:4). The question seems
nonsensical — why would God ask a person in his creation where he was when God
himself created the world? But this paradox is little different from the one in
Einstein’s famous challenge to Heisenberg’s "Uncertainty Principle":
“God does not play dice with the universe.” As Stephen Hawking counters, “Even
God is bound by the uncertainty principle” because if all outcomes were
deterministic then God would not be God. His being the universe’s “inveterate
gambler” is the unpredictable certainty that creates him.

The
mind then, according to quantum cognition, "gambles" with our
"uncertain" reason, feelings, and biases to produce competing
thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Then we synthesize those competing options to
relate to our relatively "certain" realities. By examining our minds
at a quantum level, we change them, and by changing them, we change the reality
that shapes them.

Comments

Your brain is the modem that receives and transmits the quantum field. The quantum field is the Mind itself emanating from the Singularity. We are not who we think we are. Who we think we are is just a semi-autonomous, sugar powered, self replicating, carbon based robot, on remote control. What we are lacking due to our refusal to “be kind and take care of each other” is our quantum self awareness. In our current state, we are just to hazardous to the rest of the Multiverse to open that Pandora’s Box.

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